Move over Web 2.0: the Web Squared era has begunUntil recently, we were always “entering the era of Web 2.0”. It must have been a pretty short era, though, because Tim O’Reilly, the man who first coined the term, has just declared it over. Apparently, we’re now entering the era of “Web Squared”.
Geek stuff
VIDEO: A Marvel-ous workplace
In the latest in its series on workplace environments, Cubez, The Big Money goes to the Marvel offices. Visit the merchandise room, the Marvel comic wall and meet the Incredible Hulk.
Video of the Day: Fonts alive: typography festival opens with a sans
What else to open the 5th Typophile Film Festival but a stop motion homage to typography that’s so good you could eat it. Includes letter soup and licorice all-fonts.
The economics of happiness
H = f (P, Y, X, ε) — that’s the formula for predicting people’s happiness as a function of their income, the public good and other observable data. And according to Arik Levinson, happiness data that can be used to work out the monetary value of public goods.
Will the music video game survive The Beatles: Rock Band?
The Beatles: Rock Band is make or break time for the music video game. With a budget of close to $US100 million to make, can the investment pay off? asks Harold Goldberg
The dark and stormy secret of cloud computing
The future of computing is “the cloud”, say experts: all your software and data will live online instead of on your own machine. But cloud computing isn’t about making your life easier, says Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow: it’s all about making money.
Happy birthday, internets!
Just how does the internet celebrate its 40th birthday? By doing what the internet does best: whingeing about how shit it is.
Wikipedia to start plugging celebrity leaks
Gone are the days of adding hilarious bogus information to politician’s Wikipedia entries: the site will now require that edits made by new contributors be checked before they go live, in an effort to stem the tide of bogus information about celebrities.
Wikipedia hits 3m articles: milestone or mess?
Collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has reached its three millionth English language article. But is it a milestone for free and open knowledge, or a sign the site is becoming too bloated? The “quality or quantity” issue divides many of the site’s contributors.
What would Warhol think of the Web?
The internet has made Andy Warhol’s famous prediction that “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” a reality. So what would the pop artist himself make of the web today? Would he be blogging? Tweeting? Digg-ing? Former friends share their opinions.
Gartner predicts tech’s hot-and-not
Market research company Gartner has released their 2009 “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies”, declaring what the next big things in tech will be — and what’s yesterday’s news. Amongst their predictions: Twitter is on the way out, e-books have hit their peak, and internet TV is on the up-and-up.
What’s.next? The net gets a new look
The intertubes are set for a radical shake-up, with the net’s regulator, Icann, deciding to relax the rules on “top-level” domain names like as .com or .org, potentially allowing urls made from non-Roman scripts, business or individuals’ names.
Green groups see red in battle over .eco domain
Two environmental groups — one from the US backed by Al Gore, and another from Canada backed by the WWF — have locked horns over the rights to the internet domain ‘.eco’. At stake are two very noble, but very different, business plans for the address.
Video of the Day: The webcycle: peddle-powering the internet
Is this the answer to the obesity crisis? Using this ingenious invention, tubby geeks must peddle faster and faster to speed up their internet connection. Just think of the calories burned for a 24-hour WoW marathon!
Has Wikipedia already peaked?
Are bickering, unfriendly editors and spambots killing Wikipedia? A new study shows the once-booming growth of the collaborative online encyclopedia is tailing off, and the website could find itself in a vicious downward spiral of declining quality and contributor numbers.
Sci-fi: the new religion
Holy wars, ancient texts, breakaway sects, idols — science fiction fandom has it all, and its adherents’ worship can get more intense and bloody than zealots in major world religions.
VIDEO: TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington on Charlie Rose
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington talks to Charlie Rose about Google vs. Microsoft Bing, e-readers, Facebook and his decision to publish those leaked Twitter documents.
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How much is a petabyte?
Remember when a floppy disc held 360 kilobytes of data and a gigabyte was almost inconceivable? The next unit of storage you’ll be dealing with is a Petabyte. How much data is that? This infographic breaks it down.
How to get snapped by The Sartorialist
Want to get snapped by the internet’s hottest street photographer? Cut-out, keep and consult this handy flow-chart!
Nerd cakes: 10 dorky desserts
The Twitter Fail Whale, Captain Kirk, Super Mario Brothers and other uber-geeky icons in cake form.
20 years of the WWW
Yep, the World Wide Web is 20 years old. They grow up so fast! TechRadar takes a nostalgic look at the browser wars, the dotcom boom and a time when people still used chatrooms.
VIDEO: Underwater robot wars
What’s better than robot wars? Underwater robot wars.
100 things every geek should know
How to secure a wireless router, why it’s important that Han shot first, the Konami code… and 97 other things every self-respecting nerd, poindexter and egg-head should know.
Game on, Microsoft: Google to launch Operating System
Google has announced plans to release their own operating system in 2010, called Chrome OS, designed specifically for the online era. According to TechCrunch, “This is Google dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft.”
